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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1889
Page
8
A blend of agricultural notes discusses cross bred sheep and wool quality versus purebreds, noting favorable traits in upward cross direction but deterioration with further crossing. It also details Idaho grain handling, loose-setup threshing, and field rack methods, plus soil tilth benefits for successive crops and efficient cultivation strategies.
The text argues hardiness matters more than peak laying ability in poultry. It notes climate, housing, and disease affect profitability, with a breed healthy and resistant to local conditions yielding more eggs and profit. Location and confinement influence a breed’s performance, making hardiness the first essential in selection.
Practical guidance from L B Pierce and others on fresh potting of geraniums before frost, correct root placement, and avoiding overwatering. Emphasizes thorough soil tilth, timely cultivation, weed control, and proper mulch to ensure vigorous growth and healthier beds. Also notes pruning, shelter, and managing livestock and poultry for farm productivity.
Proposes practical storage and ventilation methods to prevent potato rot after heavy rains. Recommends clean harvested potatoes kept in dry, slatted apartments or elevated, ventilated heaps with straw mulch. Suggests cool, dry boxes with ventilation near barn walls and occasional cold water dashes, safer than copper sulfate spraying.
A miscellaneous 19th century trivia montage notes dates and origins from matches in 162, kerosene 1826, coal 1634, lead pencils 1694, postage stamps, the first newspaper 1494, and a quirky tale of a California man handling tarantulas. It cites publishers, censors in ancient Rome, Paisley fabric makers, gluten discovery, and a Paris daily circulation near a million, with items on gastronomic inventions, hospital fundraising, historic unions, and Arctic expeditions.
Murray's Magazine describes the sledge build with a high body and long runners to absorb shocks. It details the flexible frame tied with reindeer skin thongs, simple neck hoops, a single rein to a guiding bone handle, and the role of the lead deer. Typically three deer are yoked, with the oldest leading.
A discussion traces the origin of pampering condemned murderers to pre conquest Aztec religious practice. Victims chosen for sacrifice were treated with royal style and honored before the final ritual, a notion echoed by an ex Sheritt sted who suggests the custom influenced later humane last hours. The Graphic notes the prevalent belief that humanity requires comfort and cheer in a condemned person’s final hours.
A fragment discusses using lye and turpentine to gelatinize a mixture for cleaning or preparation and describes decorating walls with clothes lines stiffened by paste. It notes bas relief effects when applied to walls and mentions silver on a pale background and bronzing rope panels as decorative techniques.
Instructions describe sizing calico for mounting an engraving, wetting and nailing to a frame, drying with tight tension, applying glue size and paste, coating both sides, and mounting with oil paints thinned by turpentine. Multiple coats of size prevent oil spread. a third coat may be needed. Yankee Blade.
It describes methods for Graham gems with batter thickness and oven heat, then offers variations for bread like diamonds rolls crackers and muffins. It also lists recipes including corn fritters frozen peaches vegetable soup ginger drops mutton hash baked Indian pudding and notes Emperor William sending a wreath to Crown Prince Rudolph's coffin.
The Washington Star outlines Korean mourning customs with detail, noting sackcloth garments, a unique hat shape, head bands, and long robes. The attire covers the face with a screen, masks emotion, and varies by relation. A mourner’s dress signals sorrow through coarse hemp cloth, yellowish brown robes, and specific sashes or ropes depending on whether a father or mother died.
Mr W J Stillman writing from Canea Crete reports a sparrow in Zakaleria being found and raised in a house window cage. The young bird recognized its mother when the old bird appeared and both flew off toward Zulnkerin, suggesting strong instinct in birds.
Queen Victoria opened the railway bridge over the river Dee in a ceremony attended by many guests. The span, promoted as the world’s largest swinging bridge, features a swinging girder of 287 feet, total height and a clear span of 140 feet, with two fixed spans of 120 feet each, linking Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire with North Wales rail networks.
The Chicago and North-Western Railway promotes exploration trips to Iowa Minnesota Nebraska Wyoming North and South Dakota Colorado and the Far West with half rate or one fare round trips. Excursions depart Chicago in August September and October with full details via E P Wilson General Passenger Agent Chicago Illinois.
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